Users choose Cleo for more control and fewer black boxes.
Don't settle for slow, fragmented, and unreliable integrations. Cleo delivers faster implementation, comprehensive end-to-end solutions, and expert support, empowering you to connect your business seamlessly and gain complete visibility into your data flows.
Where Businesses See TrueCommerce Fall Short
It's time to stop waiting on vendors.
Vendor-Controlled Onboarding
Trading partner onboarding is dependent on a services-led delivery model, introducing queue-based delays and limited throughput. Lack of standardized, reusable integration frameworks and incomplete end-to-end connectivity (EDI to ERP/API) increases implementation timelines and constrains scalability.
Learn moreLimited Verification & Visibility
Observability is not natively embedded across the transaction lifecycle. Reporting and analytics require manual configuration, limiting real-time validation of integrations, reducing traceability of document flows, and increasing mean time to detect (MTTD) and resolve (MTTR) issues.
Learn moreInconsistent Support Model
Support operates primarily through ticket-based workflows with variable response times and limited access to system-level diagnostics. This results in delayed root cause analysis, reduced SLA adherence, and gaps between pre-sales expectations and post-implementation service delivery.
Learn moreHard-to-Forecast Cost Structure
The pricing model introduces variable cost drivers—including per-partner onboarding, mapping changes, and transaction volume tiers—making total cost of ownership difficult to model. As integration complexity and scale increase, costs become less predictable and harder to optimize.
Learn moreWant a deeper look at the issues that can slow down EDI programs? Explore Cleo's guide to common EDI challenges
The difference is not just integration. It is business control.
Cleo vs. TrueCommerce: See the Differences Side by Side
| Category | Cleo | TrueCommerce |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | Stable and reliable, guaranteed uptime | ✕ Unpredictable, prone to crashes and latency |
| SECONDS Visibility & AI-Powered Error Resolution | Stable and reliable, guaranteed uptime | ✕ Limited visibility, complex and manual report creation, no double-clicking into reports |
| Error Handling | Stable and reliable, guaranteed uptime | ✕ Requires Custom Scripting & SI Support |
| Blended API & EDI Orchestration (E-Commerce + ERP) | Stable and reliable, guaranteed uptime | ✕ Potential for high costs due to errors, support fees, and hidden charges |
| Control & Transparency | Stable and reliable, guaranteed uptime | ✕ Black box approach, limited control over integrations, lack of transparency in troubleshooting |
The difference is not just integration. It is business control.
TrueCommerce's one-size-fits-all approach forces your business to rely on their timelines, tools, and support.
What you get with TrueCommerce
- End-of-Life & Maintenance Risks: Delayed services team that rarely matches the urgency your business requires and does not imply end-to-end integrations.
- Fragmented Visibility & SLA Exposure: Reporting and analytics are limited without customer setup—making it harder to verify integrations and quickly trace transactions.
- High TCO & Consultant Dependency: Slow response times leaving you in the dark with unresolved issues, often failing to deliver on sales commitments.
- On-Premises & Hybrid Limitations: Pricing structure can make total cost difficult to estimate upfront, as partners, mappings, and volume scale.
What you get with Cleo
- No-Code Trading Partner Onboarding Accelerate time-to-value with Cleo’s automated, repeatable onboarding framework powered by pre-built integrations, powerful AI-assisted EDI mapping—without waiting in a vendor queue for every map change.
- Real-Time, End-to-End Visibility Gain a unified, real-time view across orders, shipments, invoices, and partner performance in a single field of view, with proactive alerts and scorecards.
- Lower TCO & Transparent Pricing: You can depend on Cleo’s 24/7 support with guaranteed 1-hour, human backed response times, EDI, application, and industry domain expertise, and AI-driven exception handling that deliver the fastest resolution times in the industry.
- Predictable Pricing Know what you’re paying for and when with clear packaging and defined inclusions, so you can forecast costs as you scale partners, transactions, and changes.
Take control of your B2B integrations.
| Category | Cleo | TrueCommerce |
|---|---|---|
| Self-service onboarding | Yes | No |
| SLA & Exception Tracking | Yes | No |
| API & EDI Coexistence | Yes | No |
| User Interface & Usability | Yes | No |
| Control & Transparency | Blend and self-service model for flexibility and control, collaborative exception management. | Black box approach, limited control over integrations, lack of transparency in troubleshooting. |
Why Businesses Switch to Cleo
Cleo replaces TrueCommerce's “black-box” with a true “glass-box” orchestration platform—giving you full transparency, control, and proactive insight across your entire integration and fulfillment ecosystem so you can stop exceptions before they impact revenue.
Automated Trading Partner Onboarding
Leverage a library of pre-built trading partner integrations, canonical data models, and AI-assisted EDI mapping to accelerate partner enablement. Cleo’s no-code/low-code tooling abstracts transformation logic and communication protocols (AS2, SFTP, APIs), enabling rapid onboarding without dependency on vendor-managed queues or specialized EDI developers.
Learn moreReal-Time Visibility & Unified Performance Intelligence
Cleo provides event-driven, end-to-end transaction visibility across the full document lifecycle (orders, ASNs, invoices, acknowledgments). A centralized data layer powers role-based dashboards, SLA monitoring, and exception management—enabling proactive identification of failures, automated alerting, and correlation of integration activity to business outcomes like chargebacks, fill rates, and revenue impact.
Learn moreResponsive, Operationally-Aware Support
Access 24/7 support with defined SLAs, including a guaranteed 1-hour human response time. Cleo’s support model is integrated with platform telemetry, enabling faster root cause analysis across mappings, connectivity, and partner-specific configurations without requiring extensive customer-side debugging.
Learn morePredictable Pricing
Know what you’re paying for and when with clear packaging and defined inclusions, so you can forecast costs as you scale partners, transactions, and changes.
Learn moreCleo Achieves Real Results
Verst Logistics
Reduction in SLA Error Rate. Verst Logistics chose Cleo Integration Cloud for it's EDI and API needs, leading to ability to say “yes” to more API requirements and EDI mandates, all while lowering their SLA error rate from 4% to .24%.
Read case study 95%95% Faster Onboarding
Onboarding New Partners in Less Than 3 Days. New partners would take up to eight weeks to onboard before switching to Cleo. Now, they reduced onboarding time by 95% down to less than three days per partner onboarded.
Read case study 90%Duraflame
Reduction in EDI Issue Resolution Time Spent. Duraflame chose Cleo to help mitigate any risks that peak season brings to their B2B integration strategy. They’re now spending less time resolving EDI issues and more time focusing on bringing on new business.
Read case studyHere's what Cleo customers say about their previous EDI experience…
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“Every time a document fails it has to be retransmitted, going against our transaction count. It is in their best interest to keep the platform broken.”
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“We are not allowed to touch anything within a map. We have to open a ticket, request an update to a map, go into a queue, wait days to get a response, wait for the update then have to test with TrueCommerce. There is a lack of urgency and we can't afford to wait when there is an 856 SLA with Amazon.”
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“Cleo has provided much greater flexibility across our critical operational systems. With EDI and API capabilities in a single toolset, the ease of data transformation, and the increased automation through Cleo, we are laying the required foundational elements for our business to properly operate at a global level.”
Evaluating Cleo and TrueCommerce? Here are some common comparison questions to consider when evaluating.
What is the primary difference between Cleo and TrueCommerce?
The key difference lies in platform architecture and operational control. TrueCommerce relies heavily on a services-led, managed model for onboarding, mapping, and support. Cleo provides a unified integration platform that enables direct control over EDI, API, and backend integrations through no-code/low-code tooling and centralized orchestration.
Why do companies switch from TrueCommerce to Cleo?
Organizations typically move away from TrueCommerce due to onboarding delays, limited visibility into integrations, and unpredictable costs. Cleo addresses these challenges with automated onboarding, real-time observability, and a transparent pricing model that scales more predictably with business growth.
How does trading partner onboarding compare?
TrueCommerce onboarding is services-dependent, often requiring coordination with internal teams and external partners, which can slow implementation timelines. Cleo leverages pre-built trading partner templates, AI-assisted mapping, and reusable integration components to enable onboarding in hours or days, without vendor bottlenecks.
How does Cleo improve visibility and monitoring?
Yes. Cleo offers a flexible operating model. You can manage integrations in-house with self-service tooling, rely entirely on Cleo Managed Services, or use a hybrid model based on your internal resource availability.
How does Cleo's pricing compare with TrueCommerce?
Cleo provides transparent pricing with clear packaging and defined inclusions, helping organizations forecast costs as partners, transactions, and change requirements scale.
Can Cleo support both EDI and API integrations?
Yes. Cleo supports EDI, API, and backend application integrations within a unified platform, helping teams manage multiple integration patterns without relying on separate tools and disconnected workflows.
Can businesses manage Cleo integrations themselves?
Yes. Cleo provides no-code and low-code capabilities that give teams more direct control over onboarding, mappings, monitoring, and integration changes. Organizations can also use Cleo Managed Services when they want additional operational support.
How does Cleo help teams resolve integration issues faster?
Cleo provides end-to-end transaction visibility, proactive alerts, centralized monitoring, and access to integration context that helps teams identify where failures occur and respond before issues create downstream business impact.
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